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Dell's Mobile Connect app offers a simple way to mirror your smartphone on your PC.
The Dell Mobile Connect app doesn’t try to replace your PC with a phone, as Microsoft’s Continuum or Samsung’s DeX have tried to do. Instead, this nifty, free technology, unveiled Tuesday at CES, mirrors your Android or iOS phone on your PC, without any extra hardware.

The premise is simple: By establishing a wireless connection between an Android phone or iPhone and your Windows PC, you can leave your phone in your pocket. The technology allows you to play Android games on your PC, or simply use the phone to place calls or send texts. Consider it a bonus for buying a Dell PC: After Jan. 18, every new Dell XPS, Inspiron, or Vostro notebook will include the free Dell Mobile Connect app.

It’s a first of a sort for Dell, which built its business on quickly-assembled, quickly-shipped PCs that used the latest Intel hardware. Over the past decade or so, though, Dell’s enterprise business began adopting services to make its hardware more appealing to customers. Now, Dell is offering what it calls “the first ever complete integration between smartphones and PCs,” according to Oren Inditzky, director of product management of Dell’s Software Innovation group. 

Dell Mobile Connect can tap into your phone’s dialer.